2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• GAY RIGHTS
• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• GAY PRI
• SAN FRANCIS GAY PRI PARA 2022 DAT, TIM, ROUTE AND RTRICTNS

CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO

The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people. Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.

MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA

The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement.

Every Fourth of July begng 1965, the Remr march—named after the need to "remd" the public of the opprsn faced by the gay muny—aimed to secure acceptance by showg how unthreateng LGBT people were to the rt of society. (Michael Tercha, Chigo Tribune)The Chigo Pri Para is back after a 3-year hiat due to the ronavis panmic and is the highlight of a month of events planned to honor and celebrate Chigo’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng or queer (LGBTQ) muny durg ’s what you need to know before you go. Organizers suggt g public gay rights are celebrated JuneIn this 2019 photo, Pri flags and lors display on the Stonewall Inn bar, markg the se of 1969 rts that followed a police raid of the bar's gay patrons, New York.

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A short Tribune story the next day said 150 people listened to speakers Bughoe Square (now Washgton Square Park) before walkg to the Civic Center (now Daley Plaza) where they formed a cha around the Pisso statue and shouted, “Gay power to gay people. ”Chigo’s march preced paras New York Cy, Los Angel and other ci by one Liberatn Front members march through Bughoe Square (now Washgton Square Park) on their way to a rally at the Civic Center (now Daley Plaza) on June 27, 1970, as part of Chigo's first Gay Pri Week.

Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians.

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians.

Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy.

By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg. The march, anized by the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee, was named the Christopher Street Liberatn Day time, that celebratn me to be simply known as the Gay Pri Para. March and paras also took place that June Chigo, Los Angel and San the years, gay pri events have spread om large ci to smaller towns and villag worldwi—even plac where reprsn and vlence agast gays and lbians are monplace.

INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

The atmosphere at the events n range om r, rnivalque celebratns to strint polil prott to solemn memorials for those lost to AIDS or homophobic June 2000, Print Bill Clton officially signated June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, regnn of the Stonewall Rts and gay activism throughout the years.

7-acre around the Stonewall Inn where the morn gay rights movement, Gay Pri paras many ci are enormo celebratns: The events Sao Plo, Sydney, New York Cy, Madrid, Taipei and Toronto routely attract up to 5 ln Pri Month has grown populary across the globe, cricism of the events has grown, too.

Many early anizers now cry the mercial fluence and rporate nature of Pri paras—pecially when those rporatns make donatns to policians who vote agast gay, lbian and transgenr Pri events are nohels seen as val protts agast reprsn and isolatn plac such as Serbia, Turkey and Rsia, where Pri paras have been met wh antigay vlence. The 52nd annual San Francis Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Pri Celebratn and Para (Pri 52) is back live and person this weekend after gog virtual 2020 and as a ticketed social distancg event at Oracle Park 2021.

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On this day 50 years ago, LGBTQ activists and alli New York Cy marched om Greenwich Village to Central Park to memorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall event beme known as the first gay-pri march or the first gay-pri march 1970 to the US Supreme Court's lg protectg LGBTQ people agast workplace discrimatn earlier this month, here are 25 monumental moments the fight for equal rights for people of all genrs and sexual Bs Insir's homepage for more stori. "If you had told me s ago that the gay liberatn movement would get to this pot, where we'd go om beg arrted, evicted, fired om our jobs for beg gay to now the Supreme Court lg we n't be discrimated agast at work, I wouldn't believe you! Read below for a visual tour of the setbacks and victori Ameri's LGBTQ muny has seen the years sce the very first march, and click here to read more about Negrelli's experienc as a gay man before the Stonewall rts.

June 28, 1970: On the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg, thoands of members of the LGBTQ movement marched through New York om Christopher Street to Central Park on what would bee Ameri's first gay-pri para.

That year's Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights beme known as "The Great March" for s large turnout, which activists timated to be more than 500, 000 goal was to get more feral fundg to addrs the AIDS epimic, which at s height the mid-1980s killed 150, 000 per year, most of them LGBTQ people. The policy directed that ary personnel "don't ask" if someone is gay, but also that members of the armed forc "don't tell" that they're gay theoretilly lifted a ban on gays servg the ary that had been stuted durg World War II, though realy, forced members of the armed forc to stay closeted.

SAN FRANCIS GAY PRI PARA 2022 DAT, TIM, ROUTE AND RTRICTNS

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.